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Portugal Expected to Say YES to Gay Marriage on Friday

With a bill headed to the legislature on Friday, Portuguese lawmakers are expected to make their country the world’s eighth to legalize same-sex marriage with a promise from Prime Minister José Sócrates to sign it ASAP. All without much right-wing rhetoric. Lovely!

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On:           Jan 6, 2010
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No. 1 · Mike L

Go Portugal! Now Cristiano Ronaldo can finally come out and get married, lol.

He seems way to high maintenance tho so good luck 2 him.

I’m go for Barcelona’s Xavi, I so have a crush him. And since he’s still single, soon to be 30 and living with his ma and pa in a house he bought them with dogs I would definitely say he is SO heterosexual hahaha right!

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No. 2 · Ian

Portugal might be Europe’s sixth country to legalize same-sex marriage, but it’s the world’s EIGHTH country to do so (Remember Canada and South Africa?)

Please fix that.

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No. 3 · lancer808 · Member · 2 comments

What great news! But, it saddens me that the USA still struggles with this, while maintaining its official propaganda as the “land of the free”. One of these enlightened European or other countries should accept political asylum applications from Americans who want to be truly FREE!

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No. 4 · TouchofMyHand

Y’all need to take a course in Geography after the whole Mexico being Central America. And Portugal would be the eighth nation not sixth.

Portugal would be the eighth. After Belgium, Canada, South Africa, Spain, Netherlands, Sweden and Norway.

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No. 5 · ron

The fact this blog can’t seem to either count beyond six or differentiate between Europe and the whole world tells me all I need to know about the over all knowledge of its writers. There are currently only 7 countries that have legal same-sex marriage. I guess you don’t proofread your own articles. Fucking hacks. I’ll take Wikipedia over this shit blog any day.

Posted: Jan 7, 2010 at 5:53 am · @ReplyReply to this comment · [Flag?]
No. 6 · Robert, NYC

Hmmmm, this is one that the evil bitch Maggie Gallagher can’t do anything about! Go Portugal! As more enlightened countries get on board, its going to paint the U.S. into a very difficult corner, no longer the bastion of liberty and justice for all, but then it never was. What a disgrace for this country to be shamed by a tiny catholic country. I’m so not proud of my own country.

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No. 7 · pedro

people keep saying that Portugal is catholic and traditional, but that is not true, besides gay marriage, in the past Portugal approved very controversial laws such as abortion during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy, including for under-age teenagers girls without the need for consent of their parents, approved in 2007.
in 2001 drug consumption legalization, all drugs can be consumed without any penalization, as long you are not caught with more that a doses is not a crime, but is illegal to sell, also civil union for homosexuals was approved in 2001, but the homosexuals could not keep the belongings from their partners, in case of death, or to take their partners name.

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